Toothpick.



No. '776,008. Patented November 29, 190%.

llhurrn STATES PATENT arisen.

WILLIS VVILKINS BARNES, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TU ABRAHAM KNOBEL AND F. H. KAPPA, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

TDOTHPIOKn SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,008, dated November 29, 190%. Application filed August 1, 1901. Serial No- 70,532. No model.)

To (r/M who! 1 III/any (JON/(16777,: 8 i th d f th thi bl d Q Be itknown that INVILLIs WILKINs BARN as, 9 and 10 are alternative shapes of point with acitizenoftheUnited StatesresidingatLouiswhich the instrument may be made. Four ville, in the county of Jefferson and State of shapes are shown sqnare in Fig. l, with 5 Kentucky, have invented a new and useful corner cut ed at 6 and 9 and 10.

Toothpick, of which the following is a speci- The blade 2 may be made oi? any material tication. that is hard and spring-y. I prefer to make it 5 My invention relates to that class of toothoi spring-steel, the thinnest practical, in order picks which have a handle and may be carried that it may pass between teeth which are quite To in the pocket and used for a long period of close together. The blade being quite widetime; and the objects of my improvement one-fourth of an inch, 111016 or less-is strong are, first, adaptability to being inserted beand may be pushed with considerable force, tween close teeth; second, strength, and, third, and being thin it conforms to the curves beadaptability to being carried in the pocket. tween the teeth and may be inserted where 1 5 I attain these objects by means of the mechthe handle must be held at an angle to the anism illustrated in the accompanying drawplane of the opening, as shown in Fig. 7. ings, in which To use my invention, the blade is removed Figure 1 is a side view of the stock which from the handle and the end 7 inserted into carries the blade, together with an end view 0:1? the socket in the handle. The blade is then 20 the blade; Fig. 2, a side view of the entire deinserted between the teeth and obstructions vice put together ready for use with two althus removed. After using the blade may he ternative shapes of point; Fig. 3, a side View inserted into the handle, where it is protected. 5 of the entire device closed, so as to be carried from corrosion or other injury. in the pocket; Fig. 4, a section on the line 11 Having thus described my invention so that 5 12; Fig. 5, a section on the line 4: 5; Fig. 6, any one skilled in the art pertaining thereto a section showing the socket in the handle, may make it and any one may understand its and Fig. 7 an edge View showing the blade use, what I claim as my invention, and desire 7 inserted between two teeth at an angle. to secure by Letters Patent, is

Similar numerals refer to similar parts In a toothpick, the combination cl? a Hat 3 throughout the several views. handle havlng a tenon with a square shoulder The handle 1 and the blade 2 constitute the on one or both ends thereof, a laminal-steelbody of the device. The handle 1 is flat and spring blade permanently secured in one end made of any suitablesubstance, such as aluof said handle, and a hollow flat sheath, enininium or tortoise-shell, and is hollow, so as tirely separable from said handle, adapted to 35 to receive the blade 2. One end of handle 1 cover said blade and fit and stick by friction has an opening 13, which forms a socket for on the tenon or tenons of aforesaid handle, the enlarged portion 3 just beyond the blade substantially as specified.

2. The portion 1 is of the same size and shape as handle 1. The portion 7 is of the same WILLIS VVILKINS BARNES 4 size as 3 and also, like 3, adapted to fit snugly into socket 13 of handle 1. On the part 4 a Witnesses: square shoulder is formed which abuts against I. B. WEBs'rER, the end of .1 and forms aflush joint therewith. ABRAHAM Kunmin 

